Ridgewood NJ, according to Peter D. Fenzel the Men from he Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus served in the Army and Navy during WWI. The Chorus itself played its own part in the war effort, giving concerts to thousands of soldiers at Camp Merritt, performing at War Bond rallies and Red Cross functions, and attending to morale at home. I hope the small but significant part Orpheus played in the war effort is remembered.
Here are some newspaper clippings from 1918 with details:
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Professional Firefighters FMBA Local 47 reminds us that although it may be a bit cool for swimming this weekend, the hot weather will be upon us soon enough. Let’s take a minute to review pool safety.
From the American Red Cross :
Millions of us enjoy warm weather every year by swimming in our backyard pools and relaxing in hot tubs. Tragically though, over 200 young children drown in backyard swimming pools each year. The American Red Cross suggests owners make pool safety their priority by following these guidelines:
Secure your pool with appropriate barriers. Completely surround your pool with a 4-feet high fence or barrier with a self-closing, self-latching gate. Place a safety cover on the pool or hot tub when not in use and remove any ladders or steps used for access. Consider installing a pool alarm that goes off if anyone enters the pool.
Keep children under active supervision at all times. Stay in arm’s reach of young kids. Designate a responsible person to watch the water when people are in the pool—never allow anyone to swim alone. Have young or inexperienced swimmers wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket.
Ensure everyone in the home knows how to swim well by enrolling them in age-appropriate water orientation and learn-to-swim courses from the Red Cross.
Keep your pool or hot tub water clean and clear. Maintain proper chemical levels, circulation and filtration. Regularly test and adjust the chemical levels to minimize the risk of earaches, rashes or more serious diseases.
Establish and enforce rules and safe behaviors, such as “no diving,” “stay away from drain covers,” “swim with a buddy” and “walk please.”
Ensure everyone in the home knows how to respond to aquatic emergencies by having appropriate safety equipment and taking water safety, first aid and CPR courses from the Red Cross.
Ridgewood NJ, Rising seniors can come find out at a FREE talk this Monday, June 5th at 7:30pm. Register through the Ridgewood Library to hold a space. The talk is being given by Lisa Bornemann Paterson , Director at Write This Way, LLC -Find your Voice-Find yourself-Find your essay .
$2.8 billion infrastructure investments will maintain reliability
June 1,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), New Jersey’s largest utility, has made significant infrastructure investments that are in service for the first time this season, ensuring the utility is better prepared than ever to meet customer demand for safe, reliable electricity this summer.
“PSE&G customers are benefiting from the $2.8 billion in electric and gas investments the utility made this past year,” said John Latka, senior vice president of electric and gas operations at PSE&G. “These investments, along with our highly skilled and dedicated workforce, play a big role in making us one of the most reliable utilities in the country, and the most reliable in the Mid-Atlantic region 15 years running.”
Notable projects completed since the start of last summer include:
Eliminated, or raised and rebuilt six substations and switching stations that were damaged by water during storms, including stations in Elizabeth, Garfield, Hoboken, Jersey City, Rahway and South Hackensack.
Installed relays and remote terminal units at 45 substations and installed a new Distribution SCADA system in all four divisions. This program deploys smart grid technologies to better monitor system operations to increase our ability to more swiftly deploy repair teams.
Completed 62 projects that address critical facilities, including hospitals, water treatment plants, telecommunications facilities and police stations. This program creates redundancy in the system, reducing outages when damage occurs.
Replaced 12 aging station transformers to maintain electric service reliability for customers in Bergen, Camden, Essex, Hudson and Union Counties.
Completed transmission hardening projects to raise station equipment in five flood-prone stations, benefiting customers in Bergen, Camden, Hudson and Union Counties.
Energized eight 69,000-volt substations and associated lines. The new networks provide increased local transmission supply capacity to customers across our service area, including many living in Bergen, Burlington, Hudson, Passaic and Union Counties.
In addition to these electric distribution upgrades, phase 2 of the $1.2 billion Bergen to Linden corridor upgrade is fully energized and completed on schedule. This portion represents the upgrade from Bayway station in Elizabeth, to Linden station. When complete in 2018, the 345-kilovolt (kV) line will run from Ridgefield to Linden, maintaining reliability by relieving congestion on other regional transmission lines.
The 2017 forecasted summer peak is 10,057 megawatts. Last year’s peak was 9,800 megawatts, set on August 12. PSE&G’s all-time summer peak was 11,108 megawatts, set on August 2, 2006.
PSE&G expects to have no problem delivering the additional power, but utility crews are at the ready to respond to service interruptions should they occur. The utility’s rigorous preparedness program for summer includes conducting annual hurricane and tropical storm drills, employee training, developing emergency summer operating plans, and performing summer peak reliability analysis, helicopter and climbing inspections of transmission circuits, infrared inspections, system reinforcements and transmission line work.
Ridgewood NJ, When the temperature heats up , the kids are home from school , no one wants to turn on the oven and heat up the house or stand over a hot grill. Forget eating out or turning to a less than healthy frozen meal you can pop in the microwave. Safe Catch now has six options for creating a two ingredient main dish meal. The first company to ever test its tuna for mercury, Safe Catch has introduced six seasoned varieties of its low mercury tuna – Cajun, chili lime, citrus pepper, tandoori, and habanero mint. Mix one can with a tablespoon of mayonnaise or plain yogurt and you¹re done. Serve on salad, in an avocado or on bread as a sandwich. If you want to really dress it up, add your favorite chopped veggie or fruit blends to the mix
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PD Patrol Officer Stephen Cummings came to the aid of a fawn whose leg had become stuck in steel drainage grate in front of 200 Elmsley Court, Ridgewood on Wednesday evening, 05/31. After freeing the fawn’s leg, Officer Cummings remained on the scene to await the arrival of a representative from Tyco Animal Control Services.
Ridgewood NJ, Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi shares a commuter update from New Jersey Transit.
COMMUTER UPDATE from NJ Transit:
NJ TRANSIT has heard from our customers that their lives have been turned upside down by the almost daily delays resulting from Amtrak’s emergency repair work that is going on at Penn Station New York (PSNY). This is before the continuous summer work that Amtrak will perform in July and August.
Amtrak has acknowledged that it must do extensive and disruptive work to its tracks and infrastructure at PSNY this summer due to years of its neglect. NJ TRANSIT has challenged Amtrak to make the necessary repairs and Amtrak maintains this work must be done now.
Amtrak’s summer repair and renewal work will reduce the number of trains that NJ TRANSIT can send in-and-out-of PSNY, particularly during peak periods. With Amtrak taking out multiple tracks that NJ TRANSIT uses every single day, NJ TRANSIT developed a modified summer rail schedule that will be in effect from July 10th through September 1st. The location and extent of Amtrak’s work means that instead of being able to send 21 trains into New York during the busiest hours of the morning rush, NJ TRANSIT will send 15.
Even under these constraints, NJ TRANSIT’s experienced transportation service planners were able to develop a service plan that allows three-quarters of our customers to continue to experience their regular travel pattern into New York. Nearly all customers traveling on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley, Montclair-Boonton, Pascack Valley, Main/Bergen and the Port Jervis Lines will continue their same travel pattern as they do today.
However, there is an impact to having fewer trains per-hour into New York during this two-month period; some of NJ TRANSIT’s customers will move to a two-seat ride into-and out-of Manhattan each weekday.
Recognizing the inconvenience of the affected customers on the Morris & Essex Lines, they will be charge much lower fares – 50 to 63 percent less than the price they usually pay for tickets and passes. To provide the maximum number of travel options, we are also developing a strategic increase to bus service in affected areas; light rail service will be adjusted and NJ TRANSIT will offer free cross-honoring with PATH and the ferries.
Customers will see a robust communication campaign in concert with the release of schedules and travel alternatives the first full week of June through all traditional and social media outlets available to us. NJ TRANSIT employee ambassadors will be out at key terminals including Penn Station, Hoboken, Newark and other locations beginning next month, to answer questions and hand out information to help prepare customers for the continuous Amtrak outages that will impact them this summer.
For the summer, NJ TRANSIT has insisted on having a Joint Station Operations Center at PSNY for better crowd management and customer communication. NJ TRANSIT has also insisted Amtrak have rescue engines crewed and ready to respond if there is a breakdown or disruption this summer, to keep one delayed train from creating a cascade of misery for the customers on many other trains.
NJ TRANSIT also insisted on a number of other steps to benefit New Jersey customers this summer, including:
· That the west end concourse at PSNY be opened for NJ TRANSIT customers.
· That the blanket 10 mph speed restriction now in place near PSNY be lifted prior to July 10.
· That NJ TRANSIT is allowed to perform field inspections of the renewal work.
· That Amtrak provide daily written progress reports.
· And that an NJ TRANSIT representative be involved in day-to-day dispatching decisions.
Longer term, NJ TRANSIT will demand that New Jersey have more input on Amtrak’s priorities for repair and replacement of infrastructure, to ensure that state of good repair efforts – those projects most directly tied to the safe and reliable service, are being advanced where they are needed most, so that NJ TRANSIT’s customers can have safe, reliable service, day in and day out.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Fire Department personnel came to the aid of a bird trapped in a storm drain on Veterans Memorial Field, 131 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood on Wednesday evening, 05/31. The apparently uninjured bird flew away immediately after members of Ridgewood FD Engine Company 35/37 pried the storm drain’s grate up. The distress call to Ridgewood FD HQ had been placed by the parent of a child who was watching a nearby Little League baseball game and heard the bird peeping for help.
Ridgewood NJ, A 911 call from a frightened teenage female, who alleged that she’d been inappropriately touched by an adult male stranger, generated a immediate response from three (3) uniformed Ridgewood PD Patrol Officers and two (2) uniformed Patrol Supervisors. The incident was alleged to have taken place on a sidewalk near 103 Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood on Wednesday evening, 05/31. Ridgewood Police canvassed sidewalks and restaurants near the scene in an attempt to locate the adult male involved in the incident. The victim’s mother responded to the scene to discuss the incident with police officers and to take the youth home. The alleged perpetrator was not immediately located, but a description of his clothing and physical appearance was disseminated to all on duty officers for follow up throughout the evening.
Stopped the paper after decades. Grew up reading great NYC dailies. It has deteriorated to trash. This seems to have a reporter,& councilman with similar vested agendas. That paper has trashed Christie, the Boy Scouts & the Roman Catholic Church regularly. Add Ridgewood to the caustic, repetitive onslaught that never has an ending. Very, very disappointed in this new politician.
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report the Ptl. Douglas Christopher responded to Melrose Place on May 26, on a report of a fraud in the past. Upon arrival the victim reported a person contacted her reporting to be a Microsoft Tech attempting to fix a virus on her computer. The victim was convinced to allow the caller to fix the computer at www.helpme.net and update the computer remotely. The victim reported her computer was remotely accessed and has now been hacked in a fraudulent manner. The victim requested documentation of the incident.
What kids wear to school becomes more of an issue as the weather warms and we move closer to school’s end.
Students may opt for casual, but some districts discourage dress that is too casual — as in beach wear or revealing summer attire not deemed appropriate for class.
Janet Bamford of the New Jersey School Boards Association says there is no state-mandated school dress code, so it varies from district to district.
New Jersey law does allow for individual school dress codes on the local level.
“One kind of landmark addition was in 1996 when school dress codes were allowed to address what comes to ‘gang apparel,’ and also to permit school uniforms,” she said.
Bamford says there is a lot of variation from district to district in New Jersey, from no dress code at all to a few districts that mandate uniforms.
Ridgewood Nj, Ridgewood Chamber members are invited to attend the 90th Annual Dinner Celebration, Networking
and Installation of the 2017-2018 Board of Directors on June 12, 2017, at 6pm at ROOTS Steakhouse, 17 Chestnut St.
Hope you have received your invitation, if not let the Chamber know at
201-445-2600- [email protected]
The Chamber was incorporated in 1927, it has served Ridgewood continuously. It acts as a public relations counselor, a representative to local government, a problem solver, an information and resource center, and as a coordinator of business and professional programs and promotions. The Chamber promotes the maintenance of a dignified and successful business and professional district.
An unsalaried Board of Directors, comprised of five officers and nine directors, determines the Chamber’s policies. An executive director and administrator carry out board and committee policies. The Chamber works cooperatively with the NJ Chamber of Commerce, Commerce and Industry Association, The Village of Ridgewood Government, and other organizations and agencies that serve the residents.
Current Board of Directors
PAUL VAGIANOS
President
Email: [email protected]
Company: It’s Greek to Me
DIANE NISSEN
Secretary
Email: [email protected]
Company: Alexandrite Group
ROB DOWLING
Treasurer
Company: Modera Wealth Management
TOM HILLMANN
Past President
Email: [email protected]
Company: Hillmann Lighting
BROOKE WEBB
Director
Company: itsgr82bme.com
MEGAN FRASER
Director
Email: [email protected]
Company: The Valley Hospital
MICHAEL PICKHOLZ
Director
Company: Kidville
DEBBIE TOKARSKI
Director
Company: Allergy Free and More
ED SULLIVAN
Director
Email: [email protected]
Company: Sullivan Associates
LISA SAMMATARO
Director
Email: [email protected]
Company: Keller Williams Village Square Realty
JOAN GROOME
Executive Director
Email: [email protected]
Company: Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce
Advisory Board
MICHAEL VELICU
Restaurant Affairs
Email: [email protected]
Company: Mediterraneo
JAMES PARKS
Email: [email protected]
Company: Parks Wealth Management
DOUG SIEFERLING
Email: [email protected]
Company: North Jersey Media Group
The Chamber Office is located in the heart of the Central Business District. The community and members are able to walk to the office when in need of assistance, have a meeting in the Chamber Office, and/or be part of an event. Please stop by and visit our new office at 27 Chestnut Street (take elevator the 1st floor).
For more information about the Chamber, please call 201.445.2600 or email [email protected].
HUGE Multi-Family Garage Sale – Sat, June 3 ONLY! – All must go! 478 Sterling Place Ridgewood
May 31,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Multi-Family garage sale. Lots of new items. Furniture, household items, tools, appliances, electronics, baby items, jewelry, designer clothing, there’s something for everyone. All must go! Saturday, June 3 only! 9am to 5pm — no early birds, please!
